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Content Creation

HighWire Press, Stanford University's electronic journal development and hosting service, has recently opened a direct pipeline Internet connection with CERNET, the China Education and Research Network.

Cadmus Communications Corporation has announced that Lafayette College in Easton, PA has selected its 3Path and dPub technology solutions to distribute the digital version of the Lafayette Viewbook to prospective students.

Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the September 2004 launch of its latest two collections of digitized journal libraries – the Chemistry Backfile Collection and the Materials Science Backfile Collection.

Belus Technology has announced the new version of XStandard. XStandard is a standards-based WYSIWYG editor that can be used in Windows and browser-based content management systems to manage rich, multilingual content of any type.

It would seem that traditional publishers have much to teach other types of organizations about the digital content mantra: Create once, use many. And what better way to use a CMS than to channel content into multiple outlets, allowing an initial expense to yield multiple revenue streams. But in reality, are traditional media companies deploying content management systems?

Juniper Networks, Inc. has announced that Quad/Graphics, a privately held printer of magazines, catalogs, and other commercial products, has deployed NetScreen Secure Access 3000 SSL VPN appliances in an effort to create a secure extranet environment

The Adobe PDF has become the de facto standard for distributing documents on the Web. Yet the story can’t simply end there, can it? Surely technology must find a way for digital publishing to evolve, and, in fact, there are a number of competing and complementary technologies on the market that push the digital delivery methodology well beyond the elementary PDF.

James Cuming, former general manager of content sales for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and a former director at news wire Australian Associated Press, has launched a new venture intended to help publishers of text and multimedia create new distribution lines and revenue.

It’s enterprise everything these days. With the exception of gadgets, start big and get bigger seems to be the American way. But Macromedia took a different approach with its products from the start. It focused first on the single user with a need to create an attractive site. Then, with its Contribute product, Macromedia stepped up its offerings to teams and small businesses that wanted to more easily create and update site content. A few weeks ago, the company officially tossed its hat into the enterprise ring with the introduction of its Macromedia Web Publishing System. As much a strategy as a solution, the System combines new versions of Contribute and FlashPaper with Studio MX 2004, and adds Macromedia Contribute Publishing Services to unify and empower the suite to scale up to meet the needs of organization-wide deployments.

Bluestream Database Software Corp., a provider of XML data solutions for content management, elearning, health care, and legacy system applications, has announced the release of its XStreamDB 3.1 native XML DBMS.

TechBooks, a provider of electronic content services and solutions, has announced a new banking relationship with Bank of America through which Bank of America will provide a multimillion dollar, multi-year credit facility to TechBooks.